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In this Woody Allen Off-Broadway play, a drama about the plummeting fortunes of a dysfunctional family is played out against the back-drop of Brooklyn in the 1950's.
So far, the critics are universally uncharitable in their grading of "A Second Hand Memory." Indeed, the play has been the target of generous doses of ridicule; it's been panned to the point of scathing comments against both the merits of the play and Mr. Allen-personally.
Another Family Saga
The story is told from the angle of a daughter, Alma (Elizabeth Marvel), an invisible, detached presence who narrates the tale: The Wolfe family lives in 1950's Brooklyn. The family patriarch, Lou, (Dominic Chianese) owns a jewelry business that has seen more prosperous days. Now that the business has fallen on hard times, Lou blames his son, Eddie (Nicky Katt) who returns home and marries a lesser choice. After abandoning the business and leaving the family, Eddie pursued his acting passion in Hollywood. He followed in the footsteps of Alma who also left the family, led a scandalous life, and envisioned her own career as a poet.
Lou's wife, Faye (Beth Fowler) has plugged through her loveless marriage with Lou. She had acting desires of her own, but sacrificed her dreams for the stability of marriage. In the past, her brother, Phil (Michael McKean) bankrolled the business out of failure. He's a Hollywood agent with a secretary, Diane (Erica Leerhsen) who had a dalliance with Eddie. Eddie's career failure and Diane's rejection of him dragged him back home.
These are bitter people who've settled for second best in others, because they can't find the best in themselves. This angst-ridden family is sunk so deep in the mire, and blinded so thoroughly by its own pain, that it can't pull itself out.
Prophets of Doom
Although most reviews gave the cast reasonably high marks for the quality of their acting, they've shown little mercy toward the clichéd characters. With that, they've leveled charges that Allen has revisited the time-worn:personal and relationship loathing, discontented female lovers, and frustrated marriages on the brink of disaster themes, once too often. If nothing else, the depressing, despairing tone of the play and its morbid, woeful narration dooms this project as another warmed-over Woody Allen reinvention.
